Skills
Digidesign Protools specialist both in Recording and Audio Post Production with expert skills in recording, editing, dubbing, & mixing.
TV and Radio OB Sound Supervisor with significant experience in Dolby Surround & 5.1 working in Music, Drama & Sport.
Live Sound design and operation with expertise in ‘broadcast friendly PA’ .
My style is to produce a solution that meets the clients needs rather than make the client do it ‘the way it has always been done’

Previous Work Examples include:-

Radio Documentaries include:
Radio 1
'The Big C', 'Cap Trap', Push It' - The Salt & Pepa story, 'Sciene of attraction', ‘Eco Rock', 'Racism', 'Sporting the Hijab', From Skateboards to Stadiums', 'Food4Thought', 'Universities', 'Screaming without Words', 'You cannot be Serious’, Hip Hop in the Holy Land’;
Radio 2
'Behind Enemy Lines' for Remembrance weekend, 'Growing Up With God' documentary with John McCarthy, Series of 'Brass Britain', 'Faith in the World' x3, Soulsville - The Stax Record story, 'Laughter & Tears' - The Les Dawson Story, 'Another Fine Mess' - The Laurel & Hardy Story; ‘Bollywood’, 'The Womens War', ‘Mary Mary’, ‘Who is my Neighbour’;
Radio 3
‘Whales - In your Ears’,
Radio 4
Two Series of 'What's the point of', 'Archive Hour - 'Giving way to a new era' (Sony Nominated), 'Desperate Dreams' (Sony Nominated), Series of 'A sense of Liverpool', Series of 'Witness - Behind Luke's story', 'Portraits of Jerusalem', 'A Yorkshire Christmas','A Yorkshire Christmas', 'Christmas in the Cathedral', 6 series of ‘The Choice’, 'I got up out of my seat' - Billy Graham and Mission England legacy, 'Iconoclasts', 'Cities without Maps', 'Nerves of Steel', Restoring 4 archive 'Choral Evensongs' for re-transmission, 4 x 'Apprenticeships to the past', '3 x My Name is', 3 episodes of 'Seven Days', 'Modern Miracles', 'Managing Football', 'Sing your own Psalms', ‘Changos’, 3 series of ‘In the Footsteps of....’, ‘Physician Heal Thyself’, ‘After Death What’, 2 series of ‘Belief, 'E Generation at 40', ‘Inside the Harem’, ‘Portraits of Jerusalem’, ‘From this Moment on’ in ProLogic Surround.
BBC Asian Network
'Racism', 'The best of Asian Week' compilation
BBC World Service
'Yah Wobble's Mystical Music Tour', 'Heart & Soul', 'The Cost of Coffee', 'The Cost of Cotton', Global Account'.

Radio Dramas include: 'Craven' - 5 x 15 min Womans Hour drama series, 'Shameless' for Channel 4 Radio; 'Run for Home', ‘A Minus’, ‘Nightmares’, ‘Aperture’, ‘7 Floors’, ‘Little Lives’, ‘Take a Pinch of’, ‘Unspoken’, ‘1834’, ‘Black 5 foot Nothing’, ‘Lorna Doone’ all for BBC Radio 4

New Media & Podcasting: Producing audio for ‘The Working Class Movement Library’ CDRom on working children in the Vicorian Age; Re-purposing audio for SkillSoft NHS training schemes; Re-purposing audio for Internet Based English langauge course for foreign students; Podcast location recording and post production for Mind Your Business for Junction YK; 'On my Streets' for Channel 4 Radio.

TV Work: Dubbing editor and mixer for series of 6 x 1 hour documentaries ' The making of a monster' for Sky TV; Dubbing editor & mixer for Open University productions from 186 Media; Dubbing Editor & Mixer for 'The Write Kit' - creative writing DVD for key stge 3, Dolby 5.1 TV Dubbing Editor & Mixer for DVD series; 'Dialog replacement for Amensty film; Protools location recording in Africa; Protools location recording – ‘Kate Rusby In Concert’ for BBC 3 and DVD for the artist; Live Dolby Surround mixing for sport (3 seasons of football) & music programmes including ‘U2’, and ‘The Saw Doctors’.

Music Recordings: Worked across a wide variety of styles including all 15 of Wellspring’s albums with a wide range of styles from Jazz to Classical through Comtemporary; 3rd Day – A Rock Musical with massed choir & band; Album for Soprano soloist Margaret Ferguson; 2 x Children’s choir albums; Music for the largest carol concert in the world with brass band and Commonwealth Games Choir; Solo Flautist album.

History

Mike served his apprenticeship at Marconi Communications Systems Ltd and in 1979 was awarded "Technician Apprentice of the Year".

1977 - 81 Broadcast Audio Engineer at Marconi Communications Systems Ltd.

1981 - 84 Studio Engineer at Piccadilly Radio, Manchester undertaking general maintenance and installation duties.

1984 - 88 Outside Broadcast Engineer at Piccadilly Radio handling a wide range of OBs.
Mike built and ran Piccadilly Radio's 16 track OB truck which used the ex "Apple Studio's" Studer A80 16 track machine!
He was Production Engineer for Piccadilly's music drama production ‘Mr. Halle's Band’ which won a 'Sony Award' for ‘best classical music programme’.

1988 - 90 Senior Engineer at Piccadilly Radio during which he supervised the construction of ‘Key 103’ and ‘Piccadilly 1152’ from Piccadilly Radio.
He continued with handling Piccadilly's OB output as well as live studio sessions, several of which were released by the artist’s record companies including ‘The Alarm’ and ‘Fairground Attraction’.

1990 - present. Partner, with his wife Sally, in Studio File as a freelance broadcast audio supervisor working on OBs for a range of clients including ITV Sport, Granada TV, BSB and Chrysalis TV Mobiles.
Installation work also feature in Studio File's order book with BBC Manchester featuring high in the list, designing and installing Digital Audio Workshops.
Satellite Conferencing is another area which Mike works in as a Technical Co-ordinator for amongst others ‘Visionlink Satellite Services’ providing facilities and staff for high profile satellite conferences with multiple international linkups. Clients included:- SmithKline Beecham, Shell, AT & T and National Grid from countries as far a field as Czech Republic & Kenya.

1991 - 2001 Mike was a director of Omnibuss Mobile Ltd, which provided sound OB facilities for TV and Radio with clients that included Granada TV, Border TV, BBC Radio, and a variety of ILRs.
Mike was at the forefront of introduction of live Dolby Surround into UK TV and he mixed the first live Dolby Surround OB in the UK.

1994 - present. Set up One Stop Digital (OSD) Ltd with Jordi Morell & David Fleming-Williams to provide broadcast solutions combining our 75 years experience in broadcasting with new technology.

1999 Mike's work included editing and mixing a 12 part series ‘Anno Domini’ for BBC Radio 2, and a series of 75 ‘One Song One Love’ for BBC Radio 1.
Mixed over 12 hours of continuous broadcasting for Radio City for their ‘Party on the Pier Festival’. Millennium Dome - edited and mixed one of the presentations in ‘The Faith Zone’.

2000 Mike's work has included a large number of Radio Drama productions:- ‘The Missing Wife’, ‘Listen to Your Parents’, ‘Echoing Waters’, ‘Holiday Home’ & ‘Once in a While’ as well as several documentary series including ‘Where was God’ and John McCarthy's ‘Bible Journeys’.
Quite a few of Mike's projects have involved pioneering work by acquiring audio direct into Pro Tools.

Since 2001 work has included Protools training for a range of independent Radio clients including BRMB, Century Radio, Radio Trent & Kiss FM as well as Steve England Productions, BBC Religion & Ethics, BBC Serious Music, BBC Entertainment & Features and BBC Training & Development.
Radio Dramas included ‘Once in a While’, ‘Brimstone’, ‘Home & Dry’, ‘The History Man’, ‘Brave Swimmers’, ‘Common Pursuit’, ‘King Babuu’, ‘A Raging Calm’, ‘Its your Movie’, ‘Depth of Field’.
Recording on location direct into Protools, edited & mixed a comedy music series with Smug Roberts for ‘Ear 2 Ear’ for BBC Radio 4.
Various album projects have included another 5 for Wellspring and a tenor soloist's MOR album.
Imperial War Museum: edited, mixed & mastered a series of CDs based on 1st hand testimonies for a 2nd World War series of books & CDs.